After School Case Study

3. As a criminologist, you are asked to assess the effectiveness of an after-school program that had been designed to reduce crime rates among youth. Describe in detail at least three ways that you could go about studying the effectiveness of this program, applying concepts that you have learned in this course. If there were more after school activities for students to participate in after school this would help to reduce the crime rates among youth. I would partition youth that have an after-school gap before their parents arrive home. Most students are involved in crime because they need something to do. If the community were involved in the development of the children the hope would be students would turn into academic scholars.
Then I would ask myself what causes a teen to become a criminal? I would study the person’s environment / social surrounding. Teen offenders do not care about …show more content…
Students that have successful grades do not get involved in violent gang activity, weapons or illegal drugs. Parents need to play a more active role in their children’s’ lives. Parents need to discipline their children more and inform them of what is okay and what is not acceptable. Children are made in the image of their parents and parents need to do what they can to keep their children out of the criminal justice system.
Due to the increase incline of population, the rise of each generation will increase the probability of juvenile arrest for murder, aggravated assault and rape cases. Data has shown that children involved in murder and aggravated assault has increased over 100 percent in the last decade. In addition, rape has spiraled to 60 percent in over fifteen years. Since there is a large growth in population for today’s youth there have been more encounters of juvenile